Easy English: Learn English with everyday conversations

22: Madeira Cake Munchies


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Isi and Mitch are sleepy. But using the power of a Madeira cake they just bought, the duo talk about the highlights from their most recent holiday, reflecting on the culture shocks their friends experienced whilst riding double-decker buses and shopping in the UK. For this week's Topic of the Week, they talk about the benefits and negatives of shopping in the real and digitalised world.

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Mitch:

[0:28] Can I tell the... we're in a bit of a sleepy mood today, because we didn't sleep much last night and we're just in this like super stupid mood. So much so that, I don't know how it came about, but you... you... you wanted to go to a supermarket, we drove 15 minutes so you could buy black nail polish and when you... first of all... (We didn't go for that there, we wanted to go to a home store, like to a DIY store.) Yeah, also just to buy a light switch, a little pulley light switch.

Isi:

[0:55] I think we just needed to have like, a good job to do.

Mitch:

[0:57] Yeah, we needed some fresh air. And you, not only came out only with nail polish, but you actually when you left you went to take a picture of a seagull, which took forever, because you had to delete data off your phone. But when you came back with your nail polish, you'd randomly just bought a lemon Madeira cake. (I did. I saw it and I was thought this is what we need today.) Yeah but, you thought good to have today after we've eaten our dinner at home. But then what happened?

Isi:

[1:27] Then we decided... we went to a dog park then and parked our car there, which is also like a football park and to run Nola... to run Nola? To walk Nola or to let her run, and then we decided both, we want a bite of this cake, which is not so it's not a cake like like a round cake. It is a long cake.

Mitch:

[1:49] But it's massive, still.

Isi:

[1:51] Not so massive. It's easy to unpack. And we both tried to bite off that cake.

Mitch:

[1:58] In this grotty football pitch car park.

Isi:

[2:01] Like bloody idiots. And then we both were like; ah, this is... we cannot really do this. We were just so tired and I think we just needed sugar. We were both a bit like, shaky and like...

Mitch:

[2:12] I'm going back that way now, I feel it.

Isi:

[2:14] Yeah, and then I looked to the right and there was someone just sitting next to me, in the car watching us trying to eat that cake. And then we had a complete laugh, how do you call that in English? A complete laugh attack. (A fit. We were in fits of laughter.) Oh God, we couldn't stop it. We were just crying of laughter.

Mitch:

[2:32] We could just see it from his perspective. He was obviously just like, probably texting his wife like, oh, you know, just at the football practice with son, look over, and he's like, there's just two idiots, basically, just sat in a car, looking knackered and their dog's desperate for a pee and they're just stuffing their faces with Madeira cake.

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